Sci-fi vs Fantasy [Poll]
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For me it's:
"Realistic" Sci-fi > (High) Fantasy > Adventure Sci-fi > Isekai Fantasy
"Realistic" Sci-fi > (High) Fantasy > Adventure Sci-fi > Isekai Fantasy
So... Star Wars?
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I don't know how people aren't sick to death of Tolkienesque settings with elves, dwarves, orcs etc.
Just no high magitech please. I'm sick of everyone having smartphones, electrical household appliances or even spaceships. Especially if the main purpose is to shoehorn in modern culture, plot convenience and other tropes instead of doing proper worldbuilding to make that culture and its history work on the basis of the fantasy setting.
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I like medieval-like settings, sword-fighting, monsters, magic, although i dislike high fantasy, I prefer dark fantasy.
- Jan 3, 2021
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^This^
I mean, Star Wars is basically both.
That being said, my current favorite fictional setting is Battletech, which is basically Game of Thrones in the 31'st century with stompy murder-bots. Everyone sucks, everything is awful, everyone is fighting over it; and it is glorious.
Yeah, there's lots of nice overlap there. Apart from Star Wars, there's also Firefly (which is more of a Western/Scifi), and the various Urban and Near Future Fantasy (which combines modern or post-modern technology with Angels and Dragons, like Dragonfall or Dresden Files).
- Jan 3, 2021
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This is always my favorite WotC setting that I never really got a chance to play much of.
But you mentioning Firefly already has my mind wandering about how cool this this trope would be if dropped into a spaghetti western. Cowboys riding gryphons, gunslingers fighting spellslingers, 'medicine men' with actual magic, goblin bandits and dwarven railroad tycoons. Sounds fan-fucking-tastic.
Sorta like Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura, but with less Victorian airships and more 10-gallon hats.
You could try
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; no dwarfs or gnomes, but a Western that is built on the kind of superstitions common in that era (curses, medicine men, bargains with the devil, etc). If you enjoy reading,
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is another take on that, and also awesome. Love of Magic's Arthurian Fantasy in an Urban Fantasy setting, so not quite what we're talking about here, but Morningstar is a lot closer (Urban Fantasy in a modern New York, inspired by Highlander, The Crow, and other 80s/90s action movies).
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God, I unironically do love The Highlander and The Crow. Hard West is already on my Steam wishlist backlog, but I'm bookmarking Silver on the Road for later.
If it's porn, fantasy. Making some half baked fantasy story is much easier than writing sci-fi. Besides, fantasy setting has sexier clothing and aesthetics for me.
If it's non-porn, Sci-fi (preferably hard sci-fi).
If it's non-porn, Sci-fi (preferably hard sci-fi).
'Fantasy' on it's own is just really vague. High? Low? In the future? DnD cookie cutter setting?
The exact same goes for 'Sci-Fi', there's alot of different sub-genres out there.
If we're just going off of the genres as a whole, I'd have to pick Fantasy. It simply has a wider range of things that can be done with it.
The exact same goes for 'Sci-Fi', there's alot of different sub-genres out there.
If we're just going off of the genres as a whole, I'd have to pick Fantasy. It simply has a wider range of things that can be done with it.
If we talk about other media like books and games without sexual content, I prefer science fiction.
But talking about the games we usually see here, I really like the fantasy setting, only that what I would like to see is not very common I think, I like more the hard fantasy where basically it is the Middle Ages but there is something "fantastic" in the world. And putting the problems they really had in the Middle Ages, which are not few, can make the story interesting. Well, for example, the knowledge that people had, depending on where you are in the Middle Ages, everything is a discovery (so the characters can impress each other for things that could be super basic in other scenarios, including sex), with so limited communication, that could be interesting. But I haven't seen those things in any of the games I've played.
But talking about the games we usually see here, I really like the fantasy setting, only that what I would like to see is not very common I think, I like more the hard fantasy where basically it is the Middle Ages but there is something "fantastic" in the world. And putting the problems they really had in the Middle Ages, which are not few, can make the story interesting. Well, for example, the knowledge that people had, depending on where you are in the Middle Ages, everything is a discovery (so the characters can impress each other for things that could be super basic in other scenarios, including sex), with so limited communication, that could be interesting. But I haven't seen those things in any of the games I've played.
There are a lot of different types of settings and stories that can fall under either, so I don't think I necessarily prefer one over the other. I voted Sci-Fi though due to the fact that I tend to gravitate towards liking mechanical characters/enemies (which are obviously more common in Sci-Fi media).
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I often enjoy both, though I'd have to give a slight edge to sci-fi. I particularly enjoy transhumanist and hard scifi. And I enjoy intelligent ambitious protagonists which is more traditional in sci-fi than in anything resembling Tolkien (though some modern fantasy thankfully breaks with him about this).
In porn fantasy probably works better though. So you can for instance give the protagonist a spell to grow a dick only when required to impregnate another girl and another to teleport any children they create to a family that wants them. Of course you can justify similar approaches in scifi (eg transhumanist body swapping and government programs) but it's harder to explain.
In porn fantasy probably works better though. So you can for instance give the protagonist a spell to grow a dick only when required to impregnate another girl and another to teleport any children they create to a family that wants them. Of course you can justify similar approaches in scifi (eg transhumanist body swapping and government programs) but it's harder to explain.
I mostly prefer Fantasy for porn, but if it is non-porn then I chose Sci-Fi. Even though I voted for Fantasy, my real answer is:
